Description Details...ir accustomed seat by their mother?s side in the old sofa, that same comfortable old sofa, which might have listened to many pleasant and interesting stories that will never be told. Mother, said Frank, you have often promised us that some time you would tell us about your travels in Europe. This is a good stormy evening, and no one will come in to interrupt you; so please...

Description Details...Excerpt: BY WAY OF ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Grateful acknowledgement for permission to include the stories and other material in this volume is made to the following authors, editors, literary agents, and publishers: To the Editor of The Saturday Evening Post, the Editor of The Dial, the Editor of The Freeman, the Editor o...

Description Details...Preface: To read these stories again, thirty and more years after they were written, is to recall many memories, sad or glad, with which this reader need not be interrupted. But I have to make sure that they are intelligible to readers of a generat...

Description Details...Excerpt: ON THE MAKALOA MAT Unlike the women of most warm races, those of Hawaii age well and nobly. With no pretence of make?up or cunning concealment of time?s inroads, the woman who sat under the hau tree might have been permitted as much as fifty years by a judge competent anywhere over the wor...

Description Details...Goldthwaite? was the first of a series of four, which grew from this beginning, and was written in 1866 and the years nearly following; the first two stories?this and ?We Girls??having been furnished, by request, for the magazine ?Our Young Folks,? published at that time with such success by Messrs. Fields, Osgood &Co., and edited by Mr. Howard M. Ticknor and Miss Lucy Lar...

Table of Contents Details...Table of Contents: The Strand Magazine: Volume VII, Issue 37. January, 1894, 1 -- Edited by George Newnes, 1 -- Stories from the Diary of a Doctor, 2 -- The Queen of Holland, 19 -- Zig?Zags at the Zoo, 28 -- The Helmet, 31 -- The Music of Nature, 37 -- Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of Their Lives, 38 -- A Terrible New Yea...

Description Details...Preface: All persons like stories. Children call for them from their earliest years. The purpose of this book is to provide children and youth with stories worth reading; stories relating incidents of history, missionary effort, and home and school ex...

Description Details...my going ?home to mother? in The Churchman, and parts of one or two others in The Century Magazine. To those who have been asking if they are made?up stories, let me say here that they are not. And I am mighty glad they are not. I would not have missed being in it all for anything....

Description Details...Preface: Most of these stories originally appeared in The Captain. I am indebted to the Editor of that magazine for allowing me to republish. The rest are from the Public School Magazine. The story entitled ?A Shocking Affair? appears in print for ...

Description Details...nse; and his life?story could not be marred, past interest, by my clumsy way of telling it. People have written in gratifying numbers asking for more stories about Lad. More than seventeen hundred visitors have come all the way to Sunnybank to see his grave. So I wrote the collection of tales which are now included in ?Further Adventures of Lad.? Most of them appeared, in ...

Description Details...Preface: As these stories are only legends that have been handed down from remote times, the teacher must impress upon the minds of the children that they are myths and are not to be given credence; otherwise the imaginative minds of the nativ...

Description Details... Rouletabille. Down to the present time he had so firmly opposed my doing it that I had come to despair of ever publishing the most curious of police stories of the past fifteen years. I had even imagined that the public would never know the whole truth of the prodigious case known as that of The Yellow Room, out of which grew so many mysterious, cruel, and sensational dra...

Description Details...used to be considerable journalistic searching for ?the real Frank Harris.? One wonders now if such a creature ever existed. He wrote some good short stories. He might have developed into a first?rate novelist if he hadn't been such a damn liar....

Description Details...d mystery ranks him with Edgar Allan Poe. It may be questioned whether any Irish novelist has written with more power. The most representative of his stories is ?Uncle Silas, a Tale of Bartram?Haugh,? which appeared in 1864. Le Fanu died on February 7, 1873....

Description Details... him into the art of novel?writing. Bernard had published a volume of odes: ?Plus Deuil que Joie? (1838), which was not much noticed, but a series of stories in the same year gained him the reputation of a genial ?conteur'. They were collected under the title ?Le Noeud Gordien?, and one of the tales, ?Une Aventure du Magistrat, was adapted by Sardou for his comedy ?Pommes ...

Excerpt Details...Introduction: Mr. Howells has written a long series of poems, novels, sketches, stories, and essays, and has been perhaps the most continuous worker in the literary art among American writers. He was born at Martin?s Perry, Belmont County, Ohio, March 1, 1837, and the experiences of his early life have b...